What NASA
has been discovering is flinging past theories of the Solar
System’s formation into chaos. While the Administration’s
Genesis Spacecraft discovered that the System’s inner planets,
including Earth, do not contain the same ratios of oxygen and
nitrogen as the Sun, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer—IBEX for
short—found that the gases contained within the entire Solar
System are different from those outside its boundaries.

David
McComas is of the opinion that what IBEX brought to light could
mean that the Solar System, including Earth, came into being in
a different part of the galaxy than the one in which it is
presently located. These findings supported the inferences
derived from the composition of the Allende meteorite that
landed in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, in 1969. The
calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions that this meteorite contains
are held to be the oldest substances in the Solar System that
could only have formed far away from where the Sun presently
sits.

On the
other hand, Kevin McKeegan is quite confident that what the
information acquired by the Genesis Spacecraft implies is that
Earth did not form out of the same nebulous material that
created the Sun.”

Bernard
Marty, co-investigator of the Genesis discoveries, is of the
same opinion. What the Genesis findings indicate, as far as he
is concerned, is that “all solar system objects including the
terrestrial planets, meteorites and comets are anomalous” when
“compared to the initial composition of the nebula from which
the solar system formed.”

What the above boils down to is that,
while the Sun seems to have shifted its location within the
Milky Way galaxy, some of its members, including Earth, had to
have been captured into its chaotic family even later.

The
Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, which is known to be presently slicing
right through our Milky Way, continues to acquire notoriety
while this book is being written. It is now no longer thought
that the interaction of these two galaxies is the result of a
single merger. Sagittarius, it is now believed, “has careened
twice through our much larger home galaxy…and is lined up to do
it again.” But, while noting that the smaller galaxy is “being
ripped apart,” astrophysicists seem to be mostly concerned with
the manner in which this so-called collision has affected, and
continues to affect, the Milky Way’s spiral arms. Despite the
fact that the invading galaxy is slashing right through the very
area occupied by our Solar System, which System is better
aligned with the invader’s ecliptic plane and axial orientation
than with that of the Milky Way, our alien galactic origin
continues to be denied.